Dr Anne Tallontire

Senior Lecturer: Business, Environment & Corporate Responsibility; Director of Masters Studies

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36469
Email address: a.m.tallontire@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.104

Biography

Anne Tallontire is Senior Lecturer in Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility and joined the SRI in September 2007. She is a specialist on corporate social responsibility with respect to development, particularly on ethical and fair trade and the use of private standards.

Teaching

In addition to her responsibilities as Director of Masters Studies, Anne is Programme leader for the MSc Sustainability (Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility) teaches the following modules:

Research

She is currently Principal Investigator for an ESRC-DFID research project - The Governance Implications of Private Standards Initiatives:

Anne is an active member of the following groups in the Sustainability Research Institute:

Business and organisations for sustainable societies
Environmental change and sustainable development
Social and political dimensions of sustainability

Across the University, Anne is involved in the following research centres:

She is a member of the Development Studies Association and is co-convenor of the Study Group on CSR

Her work has largely been in the context of food and agriculture, but has extended to jewellery and handicrafts, covering issues such as:

How corporate responsibility has benefited poor people particularly in developing countries, including the gender implications of tools for corporate responsibility such as codes of practice;
How corporate responsibility standards can work better in the interests of poor people, including different strategies for fair trade and their implications for people in developing countries;
Whether corporate responsibility can benefit poor people in developing countries
Trade policy aspects of private standards;
The application of value chain analysis to corporate responsibility and private standards;
The wider - developmental and institutional implications- of corporate responsibility

Anne has undertaken research in a number of African countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and South Africa. Prior to joining SRI Anne was a Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich where she managed the Natural Resources and Ethical Trade programme, established in 1997 as the first body focused on the promotion and investigation of social and environmental dimensions in trade from the perspective of developing countries and poor people. She began working in this field by studying for a PhD on fair trade on coffee, focusing on the link between European fair trade organisations and a coffee co-operative in Tanzania.

At NRI Anne was involved in consultancy projects for a variety of clients including DFID, Defra, the World Bank, Common Fund for Commodities, Ethical Trading Initiative, Hivos and Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International. Her role also included developing and teaching a Masters course on Ethical Trade and Responsible Business and providing inputs to Food Quality and Food Safety and Natural Resources masters programmes.

Research Interests

I'd be interested in supervising PhDs on topics such as:

fair trade - project 1 / project 2
labour standards in agricultural exports
corporate responsibility in a developing country context
small producers and sustainability standards
developments in value chain analysis

Publications

Tallontire, A; Opondo, M; Nelson, V; Martin, A (2011) Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains, AGR HUM VALUES, 28, pp.427-441. doi:10.1007/s10460-009-9237-2
Tallontire, A (2009) Top heavy? Governance issues and policy decisions for the fair trade movement, Journal of International Development, 21, pp.1004-1014. doi:10.1002/jid.1636
Edward, P; Tallontire, A (2009) Business and development - Towards re-politicisation, Journal of International Development, 21, pp.819-833. doi:10.1002/jid.1614
Tallontire, A (2009) Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival, Berkeley, J INT DEV, 21, pp.718-720.
Tallontire, A (2009) Fair Trade Coffee. The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice, J INT DEV, 21, pp.718-720.
Tallontire, A (2007) CSR and regulation: towards a framework for understanding private standards initiatives in the agri-food chain, THIRD WORLD Q, 28, pp.775-791. doi:10.1080/01436590701336648
Tallontire, A (2007) Trading down: Africa, value chains and the global economy, J MOD AFR STUD, 45, pp.178-179. doi:10.1017/S0022278X06262426
Tallontire, A; Dolan, C; Smith, S; Barrientos, S (2007) Reaching the Marginalised? Gender, Value Chains and Ethical Trade in African Horticulture, Development in Practice, 15, pp.559-571. doi:10.1080/09614520500075771
Tallontire, A (2006) The origins of alternative trade and fairtrade - moving into the mainstream, In: Barrientos, S; Dolan, C (Ed) Ethical Sourcing in the Global Food Chain: Challenges and Opportunities, London: Earthscan.
Barrientos, S; Dolan, C; Tallontire, A (2003) A gendered value chain approach to codes of conduct in African horticulture, WORLD DEV, 31, pp.1511-1526. doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(03)00110-4
Tallontire, A (2002) Challenges Facing Fair Trade and Ethical Sourcing: Which Way Now?, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, pp.12-24.
Nelson, V; Tallontire, A; Collinson, C (2002) Assessing the benefits of ethical trade schemes for forest dependent people: comparative experience from Peru and Ecuador, INT FOR REV, 4, pp.99-109.
Tallontire, AM; Nelson, VJ; Opondo, M; Martin, A (Not yet published) Pathways of transformation or transgression? Power relations, ethical space and labour rights in Kenyan cut flower value chains, In: Goodman, M; Sage, C (Ed) Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics, Ashgate.